Denis Opudo
Netcracker Technology announced on 12th December 2017 that its OSS suite was selected and deployed to support the long-term growth strategy of Group Vivendi Africa (GVA). GVA is a recently developed affiliate of the French-based multinational conglomerate Vivendi with the aim to place and operate a fiber network across Africa. Netcracker’s OSS will be used as a consolidated solution to identify service availability across GVA’s operating countries and then fulfill and provision those services to customers.
Netcracker’s highly productized, out-of-the-box applications enabled the OSS suite to be deployed in seven months, meeting GVA’s demand to leverage an integrated service fulfillment and inventory solution that could satisfy its long-term growth expectations, as well as short-term objectives. Netcracker’s OSS has contained of Service Orchestration, Service Catalog, Service Inventory, Service Activation, Resource Inventory, Outside Plant and Discovery & Reconciliation parts.
The scalability of the OSS suite will complement GVA as it expands and delivers new services to a wider customer base. The solution will also enable accurate service fulfillment and provisioning and help GVA meet critical metrics associated with keeping time-to-activate low and reducing order fallout rates.
According to Marco de Assis, CEO at GVA a large planned footprint and delivering faster new services to our customers in Africa connected them to Netcracker’s future-proof service management platform that can work with them for the long term. Being able to develop and deliver innovative offerings is vital as service providers expand and take on new customers,” said Andrew Feinberg, President, and CEO of Netcracker.
The technology which is fully owned by NEC Corporation is a likely looking software company, offering mission-critical solutions to service providers around the globe. The companies’ comprehensive portfolio of software solutions and professional services enables large-scale digital transformations, unlocking the opportunities of the cloud, virtualization and the changing mobile ecosystem.
